Company:Sheetgo

Sheetgo

File:Sheetgo-1507105171-logo.png
Industry	Information and communication technology
Founded	2015
Founder	Yannick Rault Van der Vaart, Jonatan Gomes DA Silva
Headquarters	Europe, Valencia,Spain
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Chad Pittman, and Rafael Vidal
Products	spreadsheets
Services	Specific software development
Number of employees	9
Website	www.sheetgo.com

Sheetgo, is a Spanish-Brazilian start-up founded in 2015 by Yannick Rault Van der Vaart (CEO), and Jonatan Gomes da Silva (CMO) who are joined by Chad Pittman (Customer Success), and Rafael Vidal (CTO). Prior to launching Sheetgo, Van der Vaart and Gomes da Silva developed the first intelligent enterprise resource planning (ERP) system based on Google Sheets. With Vidal and Pittman they took the core feature, the ability to connect spreadsheets online and turned it into Sheetgo. Sheetgo is compatible with various online storage and processing formats, and facilitates the traceability and automatic updating of data available in the Cloud. Sheetgo has around 400,000 users in more than 100 countries among which are companies, non-profit organizations, universities and governments.^[2][3][4]

History

The concept arose out of a Brazilian start-up that promoted Social Urbanism, founded by Van der Vaart, that had to manage a large amount of data using spreadsheets to store and analyze all the information.

In order to create automated processes and workflows based on this data they needed a way to connect their spreadsheets and automate the transfer of data between them. One year later, in 2009, Van der Vaart and Gomes da Silva (who at that time led the IT department for the Social Urbanism company), created an application to enable this data transfer in spreadsheets. Sheetgo, was widely validated in 2010 by several multinational companies specialized in technology, when Van der Vaart and Gomes da Silva were invited to present it in Mountain View (California ). Later, Pittman and Vidal joined the company, where they also helped develop and implement the application.^[5]

The Social Urbanism Company has developed several complementary technologies, however due to budgetary constraints, they decided to focus on a single product that was easily scalable, to get bring on partners and investors that believed in the concept and philosophy of the company.^[6]

In 2015, the application was officially launched under the name “Import Sheet”. A year later, in February 2016, Van der Vaart, Gomes da Silva, Pittman and Vidal began to dedicate themselves exclusively to the company, after being selected for investment by a Brazilian technology accelerator. That same year they were also selected for investment by a Spanish seed accelerator, which led to the transfer of part of the team to Spain. Finally, in 2017, “Import Sheet” was renamed Sheetgo and the company was able to raise both subsidized debt and additional equity totaling 600,000 euros of financing, from the Startup accelerators and from other public and private entities.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Features

Sheetgo, is a SaaS compatible with any web browser available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The application connects data from spreadsheets through and automatically synchronizes them, facilitating the creation of workflow management and data governance solutions.^{[11] [12][13]}

Awards and Financing

• In 2016, Sheetgo was applied to a Startup accelerator in Brazil, and to another in Valencia, Spain, obtaining the support of both through convertible loans.^[14][15]
• In 2017, Sheetgo received a financial grant from CDTI (Center for Industrial Technological Development)^[16][17]
• In 2018, being one of the most innovative proposals in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Sheetgo has been awarded the Emprendedores XXI Award granted by CaixaBank, ENISA, Caixa Capital RISC and BPI.^{[18][19][20][21]}

External links

• WOW Brasil Startups, Sheetgo
• Startup-Explore. Sheetgo
• Lanzadera (Aceleradora)
• Caixabank, Galardonados Premio Emprendedor XXI